Can I get some help, quick?

I said to my wife "Happy International Woman's Day, [Wife]. I guess every other day of the year is International Man's Day." She got a little indignant, and told me that "...women still make 97 cents on the dollar." I told her it was bullshit and she asked me for sources. I asked her for sources and she told me "Nielsen." Can anyone point me toward research debunking the wage gap myth, please?

The fact that you said that the wage gap is bullshit with no evidence to support your claim and the fact that you didn't google it first. It is easy to find. And I believe there is a link in the sidebar about it.

And your response to another person who directed you towards google and the sidebar did not endear me to you.

No, i didn't. Because I'm sitting here, holding my daughter and posting from my phone. I was hoping someone could throw up a quick link i could click and show to my wife.

Sadly, this is probably the third time I've posted to r/mr, and the third time I've been shit on. I don't know what it is, its almost as if I've been branded as some sort of asshole by this subreddit, sight unseen.

Yes, and my fault for not checking the sidebar first. However, upon doing so, I do not see a blue, underlined sentence that says "Studies disparaging the wage gap myth." Maybe i only have limited sidebar access from the phone.

Yes, i could have. Then i could have spent the next hour or two combing through articles trying to find a legitimate one. Or, i could come to r/mensrights, a place where i was pretty sure there was a wealth of knowledge on the subject, not to mention friendly people who could help me find it.

97 cents on the dollar isn't a crazy thing to claim (unlike the 70 cents on the dollar that obama claimed this election).

Once you are around 97 cents - the signal to noise in the data gets really difficult to make any claim with certainty. Some demographics, notably young educated women in some fields, make more money on the dollar- but I think we're close enough to stop the oppression olympics and start thinking about how things might be made to be more fair in individual cases (would it be practical to require employers to publish their employees salaries? there are cons, but among the pros is that it empowers every employee to negotiate effectively on their own behalf). And if women think that they have it bad, they should google the effect of being unattractive or short or from a racial minority or having a regional accent on salary.

Even though I am sort of defending your wife's statement here, I have to say that it is a sad day when an attempt to be nice results in being required to go to reddit in a search for statistics. This (admittedly one isolated) story doesn't make it sound like a happy marriage.

The Men's Rights subreddit is a place for those who wish to discuss men's rights and the ways said rights are infringed upon. As a result, we have been earning scorn from bigoted feminists and white knights since 2008.
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